(Bad) Back Once Again With The MESBG Master

Alreet pets,


This week, I have mostly been lying down with a hot water bottle. In the week that followed the highly skewed event that was Tis A Gathering, I have regained the ability to walk again. Its the sad marker that, as an old person who takes little care of himself, it shouldn't be surprising when vital structures like my spine fail. Still, my R4 opponent wont forget that game in a hurry. 


Tis A Gathering is a GBHL80 event due to your being able to win without actually winning games. It adds the additional dimensions of "hobby" and "sportsmanship" - each of which are scored out of 20. This makes it fully 3D gaming, and it pleases me that you can win all, or 5, of your games but still rank quite lowly if you are a cunt. Several key moments for me (who only played Day 2 due to numbers) were: sweating my tits off on day 1 as we sweltered in the heat; three of us eating tapas for 4; and doing my back after about 15 minutes of playing toy soldiers. 


The golden eggs for any event omelette


Anyway, you come here for salt but there is none to be found. I did a speed-paint and the model came out well. I played three games so ranked badly, yet had the best average sportsmanship score. Won nothing. Had fun. Met folk I liked. Hence we stumble upon the magic ingredients of toy soldiers:


Engaging TO. Food. Theme. Cool dudes.


An Event With All Four

This week I am attending two events. The first, on Friday night. Is a *secret* event. No GBHL points means no restrictions. So its a very loose collection of cool dudes rocking up with 250pts of dudes. My list is thus:


Road to Rivendell

Frodo Baggins

Samwise Gamgee

Peregrin Took

Gildor Inglorian

Noldorin exile with banner

3x Noldorin exile with wood elf spear

Noldorin exile with elf bow


It is the most thematic list available at this level featuring the hugely cool Gildor, who is now only available in this list. Taking this selection means forfeiting all the army list bonuses. It means sacificing any chance of victory in return for brilliant theme. 


An Event With None

On Sunday, a friend and I are going to play a doubles event in Sheffield with very few of the magical elements. TO known for event irregularities; big bunch of try-hards; no food; no real theme. 

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